French scenes

Xander

The French voice-over for Giles in Xander’s dream in Restless was done by Joss Whedon’s assistant Diego Guiterez, who later went on to write the season six episode Normal Again. The following is the French dubbed scene of Xander’s dream, from the shooting script:

GILES (in English): The others have all gone ahead. Now listen carefully. Your life may depend on what I am about to tell you. You need to get to - (switch to French) - the house where we’re all sleeping. All your friends are there having a wonderful time and getting on with their lives. The creature can’t hurt you there.
XANDER: What? Go Where? I don’t understand.
GILES (still dubbed in French): Oh for God’s sake, this is no time for your idiotic games!
(Anya rushes to them, worried. And dubbed.)
ANYA (dubbed in French): Xander! You have to come with us now! Everybody’s waiting for you!
GILES (still dubbed in French): That’s what I’ve been trying to tell him.
XANDER: Honey, I don’t - I can’t hear you…
Anya grabs his arm, starts dragging him.
ANYA (dubbed in French): It’s not important. I’ll take you there.
XANDER: Well, wait. Where are we going?

Joss Whedon said this about the French scene at The Bronze posting board: “At the last minute I dragged my assistant DIEGO in to read it. He’s Mexican, speaks a little French (yeah, he’s trilingual, which for someone as barely unilingual as myself is both annoying and annoying) and he was reading off a script so it may not have sounded perfect to some but the effect was just great for the dream. Now y’know.”

   
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    Added: › 6th May 2005
    Updated: › 29th January, 2006
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